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To be alive today is to be confronted by the products of science - from aspirin, refrigeration, electric light and the telephone, to the airplane and the computer - to name just a few. In addition to beneficial medicines and life enhancing discoveries, however, scientific research also has led to many dangerous developments, such as the machine ...
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From the critically acclaimed author and "master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan), a sweeping saga of loss and redemption that centers on Alice, who as a scientist, relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to use her skills to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, and tied to Oxford by her work, it's time to break away....
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Having spent the summer conducting fieldwork on stark Livingston Island, marine biologist Andrew Berrister is looking forward to returning to civilization. But his final days in Antarctica take an unexpected turn when it becomes clear that he and his small group of scientists are not alone on the island. Deducing that the intruders are a crew of illegal whalers, the scientists face an increasingly desperate struggle for survival when two members of...
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Cleveland Police Department forensic investigator Maggie Gardiner investigates a female teenaged victim that no one has reported missing, and a killer with a unique sense of justice.
Forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The latest is an unidentified female in her early teens, but more shocking than the girl's injuries is the fact that no one has reported her missing. Jack Renner...
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While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
10) Nexus
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460 pages ; 22 cm
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In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage -- for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.
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2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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From great figures come our most noteworthy inventions, from the telephone to the theory of general relativity. But no great leader is perfect. H2 digs into the scandals and family secrets you won't find in textbooks in this special. Observing the lives of renowned leaders, brilliant scientists and notorious criminals, viewers get an inside peek into their unknown pasts, from Ben Franklin's nefarious history to Albert Einstein's hidden family drama....
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The Time Machine and The Invisible Man, by H. G. Wells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the...
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116 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
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"A major contribution. Geymonat ensures that Archimedes will continue to be an example of mathematical genius for generations to come."--from the Foreword by Zhores I. Alferov, Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics --
In this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of the life of the Greek Archimedes, Mario Geymonat provides fresh insights into one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind. --
Archimedes...
15) Genesis
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1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Deep in a subterranean silo, the last remnants of humanity are divided by a caste system that keeps politicians and scientists away from the rabble and crowd. While civilians starve, freeze, and are forced to work in a hazardous, chemically lethal environment above ground, all resources are dedicated to the construction of ABEL: a humanoid life form designed to forage, search, recover, and make contact with any other survivors.
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¿Sabes cuántos descubrimientos científicos debemos a las mujeres? Aunque en los libros de historia parezca que las ciencias son cosa de hombres, de eso nada: desde Agnodice, la primera médica conocida de la historia, hasta Rosalind Franklin, la química que descubrió la estructura del ADN, pasando por Vera Rubin, la astrónoma que vio lo que nadie veía, las mujeres han sido pioneras en ciencias desde el inicio de los tiempos. Y aun así, Èpodrías...
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1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sid and his classmate Gabriela enter a contest and win the exclusive opportunity to visit a new modern science museum before it opens to the public. There the kids meet a quirky scientist, voiced by special guest star Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future), who has designed robot tour guides of the future! Then one of the robots goes haywire and the grand opening is in jeopardy! It is up to Sid and his friends to work as a team to find the rogue robot...
19) Medicine man
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sean Connery plays Dr. Robert Campbell, a brilliant but unorthodox scientist racing against time in his bold research for a cure [for] cancer. Set deep in the forbidding Amazon rain forest, this action-packed hit follows Campbell hot on the trail of an amazing discovery - but the eccentric recluse soon finds himself caught in the midst of an explosive adventure! -- Container.
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